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Murder Ballads: The Calamity at Widow's Rock
A Live Immersive VR Dark Ride
Murder Ballads: The Calamity at Widows Rock is a live immersive VR dark ride set in a cursed mining town feature performances by a live cast. Combining elements of supernatural folk curses and Grand Guignol-style naturalistic depictions of human depravity, Murder Ballads is set in the Wild West mining town of Widow’s Rock which has been which has been beset by a dark miasma unleashed by local miners. This curse has caused an extreme loss of inhibition among the town’s inhabitants, turning minor tensions into scenes of violence and murder. Prior to the calamity, Widow’s Rock was a quiet town with a local economy based around its gold mine. All was calm until the miners uncovered something better left buried, resulting in a massacre. Initially seen as an isolated incident of greed turned violent, incidents of vengeance of retribution quickly began to spring up throughout the town, turning the land into a warzone. Take a seat alongside the mysterious wagon driver as he regales you with stories of these poor, unfortunate souls and bear witness to the acts of wickedness and depravity which have thrown the town into chaos. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS Murder Ballads performed on the VRChat platform and is compatible with Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest Pro, and PC VR (HTC Vive, Meta Rift, Valve Index, Microsoft Mixed Reality, etc.). While designed with VR in mind, audience member may also attend without the use of VR with a Windows PC.
Audience Role
Your role is that of a passenger on a tour through a series of vignettes detailing the happenings in the cursed mining village of Widow's Rock on this VR dark ride featuring live performers. Some segments are wholly passive while others encourage optional interactivity.
Ages: 16 +
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About Ferryman Collective
Ferryman Collective is a passionate group of creative and technical professionals dedicated to bringing groundbreaking live, immersive narratives to life in virtual reality, born of the desire to explore what storytelling, interaction, immersion and entertainment CAN BE rather than what it HAS BEEN, to define a new generation of media with live performance in XR. We are a new kind of virtual reality studio, paving the way forward in this brave new world. With a passionate team of multidisciplinary talents, Ferryman Collective aims to take you on unprecedented journeys into fantastic worlds and stories previously thought to be the stuff of dreams.